David Botstein

David Botstein
David Botstein
Born	September 8, 1942 (age 81); Zurich, Switzerland
Alma mater	Harvard University; University of Michigan
Known for	Genetic linkage map using restriction fragment length polymorphisms
Relatives	Leon Botstein (brother)
Awards	Eli Lilly and Company Award in Microbiology (1978); Genetics Society of America Medal (1988); Allan Award of the American Society of Human Genetics (1989); Rosenstiel Award (1991); Novartis-Drew Award (2003); Gruber Prize in Genetics (2003); Albany Medical Center Prize (2010) ; Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013) ; Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (2013); Double Helix Medal (2015); Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (2020)
	Scientific career
Fields	Genetics
Institutions	MIT; Stanford University; Genentech; Princeton University
Thesis	The Synthesis and Maturation of Phage-P22 DNA (1967)
Doctoral students	Olga Troyanskaya ; Fred Winston; Douglas Koshland; Tim Stearns
Other notable students	Michael Eisen (postdoc)
Website	www.princeton.edu/genomics/botstein; molbio.princeton.edu/faculty/molbio-faculty/96-botstein

David Botstein (born September 8, 1942) is an American biologist who is the chief scientific officer of Calico. He was the director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University from 2003 to 2013, where he remains an Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics.

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